Too many problems, not enough time.

Blank Page in OWA 2010

If you’re anything like me there will be times when you’re so busy (or maybe a little lazy) you might just count hope on the fact that a Microsoft install will check installation prerequisites and warn / install them for you.

Unfortunately Exchange 2010 isn’t one of those installations. Using a default install of Windows Server 2008 R2. I performed an installation of Exchange Server 2010. Using only the pre-installation checker during the installation process I installed only what was requested to get Exchange 2010 to install. For the most part this was fine. It gave me a functioning Exchange 2010 test server.

It wasn’t till I tested OWA that I found it didn’t install or notify me of all the prerequisite web components.

When I browsed to OWA I was redirected to https://exchangeserver.local/owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https://exchangeserver.local/owa&reason=0

Fortunately the fix was rather simple. It required two PowerShell commands and no Exchange service restarts.